Geography and Travels
Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Geography
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Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Geography
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Author : Mercantile Library Company (PHILADELPHIA)
Publisher :
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Publisher :
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Literature
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Author : Alison L. Gascoigne
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9782503541730
Focusing on routes and journeys throughout medieval Europe and the Middle East in the period between Late Antiquity and the thirteenth century, this multi-disciplinary book draws on travel narratives, chronicles, maps, charters, geographies, and material remains in order to shed new light on the experience of travelling in the Middle Ages. The contributions gathered here explore the experiences of travellers moving between Latin Europe and the Holy Land, between southern Italy and Sicily, and across Germany and England, from a range of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so, they offer unique insights into the experience, conditions, conceptualization, and impact of human movement in medieval Europe. Many essays place a strong emphasis on the methodological problems associated with the study of travel and its traces, and the collection is enhanced by the juxtaposition of scholarly work taking different approaches to this challenge. The papers included here engage in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue and are supported by a discursive, contextualizing introduction by the editors.
Author : Mill Hill Books
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
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ISBN : 1458345351
Author : Sarolta Takacs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1373 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1317455711
Designed to meet the curriculum needs for students from grades 7 to 12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores world history from approximately 5000 C.E. to the present. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the modern world.Each volume includes articles on history, government, and warfare; the development of ideas and the growth of art and architecture; religion and philosophy; music; science and technology; and daily life in the civilizations covered. Boxed features include "Turning Point," "Great Lives," "Into the Twenty-First Century," and "Modern Weapons". Maps, timelines, and illustrations illuminate the text, and a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index in each volume round out the set.
Author : Zvonimir Grbasic
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1473898439
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar or simply the Templars, are the most famous of the Crusading knightly orders. Formed in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, this curious hybrid of military unit and monastic brotherhood were the staunchest defenders of the Crusader States of Outremer for nearly two centuries. Knights joining the Templars renounced their worldly possessions and vowed to follow a strict code, which included the command to fight the infidel enemy bravely regardless of the odds. They provided Christian armies with a lethal cutting edge in open battle, launching fanatical charges to break the enemy formations, as well as garrisoning a network of forts as a stubborn bulwark against reconquest. Zvonimir Grbasic outlines their history, narrating many of their greatest victories and defeats in detail (such as Montgisard and the Horns of Hattin), describes their organization and hierarchy, training and daily life. These elite warriors, both the knights and the lowlier ranks, are illustrated with the author's beautiful original paintings and drawings.
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Page : 694 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : R.T. Naylor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0773583610
As Bruce Trigger explains in his preface, Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was the first history in which native peoples appeared as genuine actors in human dramas - mainly tragedies - instead of as part of the flora and fauna in the background. By stressing the interconnections between the grand events of the conquest and subjegation of the globe by European empire builders and the less dramatic events in Canada, Naylor's book led to a fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian social, economic, and political history.
Author : Leonard Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1926
Category : History, Modern
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